TY - JOUR
TI - Urban Renewal in American Cities and Responses of the White Working-Class Ethnic Groups: A Preliminary Exploration
AU - Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Anna D.
TI - Urban Renewal in American Cities and Responses of the White Working-Class Ethnic Groups: A Preliminary Exploration
AB - 
	In the post-World War II decades, urban renewal became a part of the larger vision for the revitalization of American cities. Between 1949 and 1974, federal legislation provided a legal and economic framework for demolition of so-called blighted areas and replacing them with new modern housing, infrastructure, and facilities for services and commerce. It was a response to the perceived urban crisis: a move of city residents to the suburbs and collapse of the tax base, congestion of urban areas, and aging urban infrastructure. The areas slated for demolition or highway construction belonged often to communities of color and to older urban working-class white ethnic communities. This article examines the responses of various white ethnic groups, including American Polonia, to the local plans of urban renewal, which ranged from apathy, to acceptance and support, to internal mobilization and protest, to coalition building and political action.
VL - 2021 (XLVII)
IS - Nr 3 (181)
PY - 2021
SN - 2081-4488
C1 - 2544-4972
SP - 19
EP - 38
DO - 10.4467/25444972SMPP.21.030.14450
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/smpp/artykul/urban-renewal-in-american-cities-and-responses-of-the-white-working-class-ethnic-groups-a-preliminary-exploration
KW - urban renewal
KW - ethnic communities
KW - American Polonia
KW - American working-class ethnics